Example sentences of "pulling [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 2 | A bit intoxicated , he thought , as she leaned away from him , pulling the dress up on her fat shoulders , and began again on some exploit of an uncle ( to him an ancestor ) already recounted during the fish course . |
| 3 | This may seem a macho way to treat the hair but it is also a sure way for pulling the hair out . |
| 4 | He was adjusting the sail ropes and pulling the tiller back into position . |
| 5 | He closed the door and went across , pulling the sheet back slowly , careful not to wake her , exposing the fullness of her rump , the elegance of her back . |
| 6 | On June 15 KKE secretary-general Aleka Papariga , who was from party 's conservative current , had announced that she was pulling the KKE out of the Left Alliance . |
| 7 | She contented herself with pulling the T-shirt down over her bare stomach . |
| 8 | And th this knife was going like this and the roller was pulling the skin round . |
| 9 | Body weight and feet play a part too , the pilot 's backside shifted to the right and extra weighting of the right footrest pulling the machine over . |
| 10 | The most common application is to gravity feed an external chambered filter , pulling the water through , and returning it via a venturi . |
| 11 | ‘ They and others of the citizens are pulling the theatre down , and the soldiers from the Gallowgate Barracks are awa' ! ’ |
| 12 | He said the Government accused any critics of talking the country down , but in real life the people were more concerned about the Government ‘ pulling the country down ’ . |
| 13 | He finished his cocoa as quickly as possible and he was about to leave when to his surprise Mr Grover began pulling the blind down over his shop door . |
| 14 | He had put on his overcoat and was pulling the collar up about his ears . |
| 15 | Looking down , he saw Mould pulling the hook out the water for the second time . |
| 16 | Pulling the cover up over her mother 's shoulders , Maura crept from the room and down the stain . |
| 17 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 18 | Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers . |
| 19 | artery , it 's probably quite easy , the television set , then after that it 'll drop off obviously because the body is pulling the pressure down all the time , it does , okay , but if it was a vein ? |
| 20 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 21 | Harmon 's loss , when Oldham were leading 18–10 , spelled the end of any real hopes Warrington had of pulling the game out of the fire . |
| 22 | Make sure that each loop is fairly large — try pulling the needle back to within approximately one centimetre of non-work position . |
| 23 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 24 | Apart from union complaints about the few jobs generated , there is little sign that the much vaunted investments in high technology are pulling the French out of recession , once a basic tenet of the Chevenement philosophy . |
| 25 | … Stalin comes nowhere near General Aung San , even when the latter is baring his penis and pulling the foreskin back . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Wonder who the bloke is ? ’ thought Meredith sleepily , pulling the duvet up round her ears . |
| 27 | Normally she 'd have shampooed his hair twice , but his compliment had rattled her badly , or perhaps it was the deep and husky voice he 'd said it in , and she quickly rinsed the lather off , pulling the towel up over his head to blot excess water . |
| 28 | He added that splinter groups should not be pulling the carpet out from under the coalition . |
| 29 | Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude , it carried on , sinking fast . |
| 30 | She did n't want to think too closely about what she would do if Luke opened the door , but the driver had left an old anorak on the passenger-seat and she slipped it on , pulling the hood up to cover her hair . |